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the press conference is about 50 minutes. minutes. i am a spokesperson for the coalition to march on the dnc, and i'm the national chair of the united states palestinian community network. it has been nearly a year of organizing, and finally, tomorrow is what we are calling the event of the season. almost 270 organizations from across the u.s. have joined the coalition to march on the dnc, and tens of thousands will be out on the streets starting tomorrow, august 19, at noon right here at union park to say, stop the genocide now, end u.s. aid to israel, and free palestine. we have discussed many times the

challenges our coalition has had to face and our fight is far from over. the approved march route, as all of you know because we have been talking about it ad nauseam, is only 1.1 miles long and includes several blocks on narrow residential streets, and sufficient to accommodate the protesters. in addition, the city has prohibited the use of canopies, even to uphold the safety and confidentiality that our medics need -- we have a huge medics team -- that our medics need to treat people in need. again, it is not only in the best interest of the coalition and our protesters to have a longer route that does not face logjams and bottlenecks, but also in the best interest of community members who live around here who are facing

massive challenging restrictions of their own, and of course, it is in the best interests of the city so that the rally, the protests, and the march will proceed as smoothly as possible. three days ago, as all of you know, we were blindsided and told that we would not even be able to use a stage and projected sound, so we immediately called upon organizers and activists in chicago and across the u.s. to make calls to john roberson, the coo of the city of chicago. thousands of those calls were made from all across the country, and we won that accommodation back. organizers within the coalition to march on the dnc did what we do -- we organized, and we put pressure on the city and the

city law department and got that accommodation back. but now, there are still some things that we need. we need those canopies, and we absolutely, positively need the longer route. if we get those thousands that we expect -- when we get those thousands and 10 thousands that we expect, 1 mile will not accommodate them. everybody knows that. you don't have to be an organizer for 25 years like some of us to understand that. if people leave union park and march 1 mile, by the time they come back, there will still be thousands that have not left the park, which means that thousands that have not left the park do not get their first amendment rights of health. they do not get to be in front of the united center. they do not get to be within sight and sound to say end israeli occupation, and a u.s.

aid to israel, and a support of the genocide. we have to make sure that everybody who wants to make that message known and heard is able to do that. we have to make sure that the people from the black liberation movement and immigrant rights movement and women's rights movement and the lgbtq movement and the workers rights movement and the reproductive rights movement and all of the other folks who will be out here with us supporting the palestinian cause, supporting our demands and are making demands of their own of the democratic party -- remember, coalition to march on the dnc was formed way before october. that means all of these organizations dealing with all of these social justice issues were there with us from the beginning, and my organization and the palestinian community was with them from the beginning. we made the shift that was necessary, and that is why palestine is the center right now, but we will address all

those other issues as well. you will see them on the beautiful banners, the puppets, the posters. you will hear them from the stage, people representing all of those different issues, and they need to all be heard. we want people starting tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m. up until the moment we step off -- and i will explain what the schedule is going to be later, but up until the moment we step off, we will have people continuing to call john roberson. we have a member of the city council here who also is supporting us, who also will talk about the fact that the city that he represents needs to do the right thing. that is what we are calling upon for the people to do, to call monday morning, say, "you have to give them their route" and also say "they need their canopies as well." that is the space back there. historical union park where in

2016, the movement brought out 500,000 people to go against the anti-immigrant bill that was trying to be passed in wisconsin. 500,000 people on march 10 in 2006. we brought mayday back to chicago. we brought the workers movement back to chicago and there were hundreds of thousands and millions of people across the street that work watching. carlos lopez is here. los angeles had a protest, not as big as chicago, but, well. i want to recap the we can before i introduce our speakers. on monday morning at 10:00 a.m., we will have a press conference. we have not decided where it will be, probably closer to the stage, at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. at 12:00, hopefully as close as

12:00 to possible, we will start our program from the stage at union park. that will go for about an hour and a half, maybe a little bit longer. there will be speakers from all across the country. from there, we will start our march. like i said, up until 2:00 p.m. when we step off, we will be fighting for our rights and that route. we will get within sight and sound of the united center, and then there's another part that is part of the route. we will have a few other speakers to wrap up our program and from there, we will be marching back into the park and disband from here. for the press and other people, the day starts at 10:00 a.m. we will be ready at 8:00 a.m. for press check-in, even 7:00 a.m. for press check-in tomorrow.

we will have hundreds of our volunteers setting up for all the sorts of things, those images might want to get as well. right around 2:00, we step off, we see the route, we come back here, we closed in here, and then we disband for the day. on thursday, not absolutely confirmed yet, but you will get it if you are on our list. possible press conference also at 3:00. on thursday, program starts at 5:00. it will be a shorter program, but it will start at 5:00. we will do another march, another small one at park 578. we will be within sight and sound of the united center and then we will come back to union park to disband on thursday. the last thing to announces that on wednesday, all of you who are from chicago and have been following us for the past 10

months and even way before, the chicago coalition for justice in palestine was formed in 2000. in the last 10 months, it has organized -- the coalition itself has organized 50 protests in support of palestine to stop the genocide. all the institutions within that coalition and all of our solitary partners altogether have organized close to one hundred actions in chicago since october. that is the leading coalition around palestine in chicago, and they are leading with the other forces in that coalition, leading a protest on wednesday, 3:30 pm that will be here as well, and it will be stage here, and there will be a route that will be announced later on. that is the schedule that the coalition to march on the dnc is announcing officially this morning. also announcing officially this morning that our fight for the

longer route and our fight for the canopies and all the other things that should be upheld for us will be fought for up until game time essentially, tomorrow. i will come back and take questions after you hear from a couple other very important organizers in our coalition. another spokesperson for our coalition and a leading organizer for the chicago alliance against racist and political oppression will speak now. >> all right. he explained the logistical background and gave context on the coalition as a whole. as a member of the chicago

alliance against racism and political repression in the black liberation movement, i am here to say the black liberation movement in the u.s. stands with palestine and demands an end to all u.s. aid to israel. in this horrific genocide of palestinians, it is being aided and abetted by democratic party leadership and its representatives. the genocide joe biden, killer kamala harris, baby killer blinken. it is a question of self-determination for palestinians. black people in the u.s. also understand the question of self-determination. the same occupation israeli forces trained police departments like the chicago police department to implement the tactics they learned onto our communities, and that continuous oppression and repression that holds back black people from exercising their own self-determination. this is why black people are not

only marching to end all u.s. aid to israel but also marching for community control of police now. we see dexter reed who was shot 96 times by police and when his lifeless body lay on the ground, police officers still handcuffed him. in a young palestinian prisoner subjected to psychological and physical torture for almost 10 years, we see anthony, made a political prisoner for his fight to end solitary confinement in illinois. as well as hundreds of others who were tortured by john bird and his midnight crew in cpd. this is why we say cpd, kkk, ios are all the same.

people turned out in historic numbers in rejection of trump, and yes, biden and's -- biden and kamala's promises of passing the george floyd change in policing that never materialized. we have seen how far the powers that be have gone to stop working and oppressed people like us from expressing their first amendment right to protest us, first amendment rights to protest the dnc. they will give us the march route we want, they won't let us have the stage we want, and they will give us media rights so the media can disseminate our messages. they cannot bear the coalition from all over the country, composed of the very people they claim to represent, from all sectors of society, marking on them and pointing out their hypocrisy. the coalition is united in standing for palestine, we are

united in ending aid to israel, it is united in stopping police crimes, and i'm going to say, from the river to the sea -- >> palestine will be free. faayani: from the river to the sea -- >> palestine will be free. faayani: thank you. hatem: thank you. coming from minnesota, this organization get together after the police murder of jamar clark , and she has been a palestine solidarity activists for a long time as well. jess london. jess: hello. thank you for coming out. i know i'm the little guy behind the big mic. i'm so excited to be in chicago. hundreds of minnesotans are

coming behind me. my daughter is getting on the bus tonight. there's a waiting list for the buses, actually. people are coming by car, planes, trains. the fact is, minnesota is proud to come and stand with chicago again. we have stood with chicago folks in the fight for justice for palestine, the fight against police crimes, and on every front. we have folks coming from every area. it's not just the people of minnesota -- we are going to fight for what we need. the first thing we need us to stop the genocide, and the fact is, the democrats have no business celebrating in chicago while genocide is unfolding in palestine every day. and the reality is, whether it is genocide or any of our other demands, there's nothing the city of chicago could do to stop us from coming, to stop us from lifting our voices, and to stop us from standing together,

marching to the dnc, and saying what we have to say. we have the right to be there, and not only that, we have a duty to speak out. here in the belly of the beast, it is our responsibility not to let the politicians speak for us. we are here to speak for ourselves. so look for hundreds of minnesotans joining the tens of thousands, the people i know coming from across the country here tomorrow, starting at, maybe about 7:00. rally will start at noon. we march at 2:00. our message is going to be loud and clear, free palestine. jess, j-e-s-s, sundin, s-u-n-d-i-n. hatem: thank you, jess. another very close friend of mine who has been a leading organizer for probably five

decades, coming up on six decades, a cofounder of the legendary ram de reyes, and a leading organizer of the civil rights movement and los angeles and across the country, it's carlos montes. carlos: good evening, i'm carlos montes, longtime civil rights activist. we have people from all over the u.s. that are going to be marching together, demanding legalization for all, no deportation. but primarily and foremost, we are in solidarity with the palestinian people. we are demanding that biden, harris stopped the genocide, stop funding israel, stop

funding military aid for israel. that is our message. my parents came here from mexico, i came here as a seven-year-old, grew up in southern california, facing racism and exploitation. the community i live in, primarily undocumented families, the highest corporate death rates in southern california. that is why we are here, demanding justice, equality for all oppressed people, especially african-american, latinos, and all working people to unite to say stop the genocide and demand legalization for all. we are also here in solidarity with the african-american people to promote black and brown unity, because the hispanic community throughout the united states also suffers police

killings. a 14-year-old undocumented youth was shot in the chest while he raised his hands and kneeled by the lapd. we will be marching tomorrow to the dnc, permit or no permit. i also march at the rnc in milwaukee, doing the same thing. here to demand legalization for all, solidarity with the palestinian people. thank you very much. hatem: thank you, carlos. i just want to correct one little thing that carlos said, the demand to end military aid, our demand is to end all a the israel, political, diplomatic, military, financial, all of it. we have an incredible student movement in the country that everybody knows of. we have seen, and he did not just pop up when the encampments popped up in new york.

this student movement is a powerful one and has been at the lead of all of our protests since october and for decades before that. sjp is that leading force nationally, and we have students for justice in palestine network in chicago. we have a cochair of that network here, speaking to us, abla. abla: hi, everyone. this week, we are protesting the democratic national convention, because as we enter the 10th month of the israeli genocide in gaza, the democratic party has done nothing but unconditionally back israel and

its onslaught of war crimes. we have witnessed the loss of over 100,000 palestinian lives, 1.5 residents had lost their homes and are forced to take shelter in disease filled camps. many are on the brink of a man-made famine, with limited access to food or clean water. almost all the infrastructure have been destroyed, including homes, hospitals, and educational institutions. a public health crisis is actively unfolding in gaza, with entirely preventable diseases like polio, hepatitis a, and hepatitis be spreading like wildfire. our representatives have done nothing to put an end to this violence. rather, democrats have just approved 3.5 billion dollars more in military aid to israel earlier this month. this is the party that prides itself on being committed to human rights while being complicit in some of the worst human rights violations of the

century. throughout the course of the american-backed genocide, civil unrest has been rampant throughout the country, from protesting democratic campaign events and in the street and eventually on our own campuses, the students come along with everyone else, has made it known, and every way possible that we demand an immediate, unconditional cease-fire and an end to the funding and arming of israel. the democrats have failed the american people. not only by turning their backs on the so-called moral standings of american values by by also neglecting the urgent needs of people in this country. 43 million americans have crippling student debt. the housing crisis is at an all-time high. many americans don't have access to life-saving medical treatment , and the future of humanity is left uncertain by the rapidly unfolding climate crisis. by prioritizing military aid and profit over domestic welfare, the democrats, especially joe

biden and kamala harris, who is also complicit, has shown that they do not truly put the interests of their citizens first, instead revealing that this system is driven by the bribery of israeli zionist lobbyists rather than the well-being of its citizens. this coming week marks a continuation of unrest we seen over the past 10 months. despite our relentless demand for the democratic party to end the genocide, we are continually ignored could we see increased militarization of the police, violent repression, and unjust targeting by protests -- of protest answered activists. israel's military and economic strength, our universities share deep economic and political ties with israel and continue to benefit and fund israel's genocidal agenda. this normalization of israel's existence hasin the global and academic spheres.

students are calling upon our universities to do one simple thing, but humanity first. we demand you immediately divest our tuition dollars in any private endowment from human rights violations all across the world, and instead fund time, effort, and resources in our futures instead. the student movement bow to our administrators and the elected representatives that we will continue to disrupt everyday operations of campus life and social life until we see an end to the economic and political ties supporting israeli war crimes. we are the catalyst of change from and that is why we are here at the dnc to continue for the fight of liberation and humanity of all people, from immigration workers to the women's liberation movement, the black liberation movement, lgbtq, we are all standing united to tell the democrats we want an end to the genocide, and we want to fund ourselves. thank you. hatem: thank you, abla. our last speaker before i began

taking questions is someone who has been a supporter of our community for a long, long time, since when he was an activist and organizer in the community, coexecutive director of the alliance, and now he's on the chicago city council, advocating for the people, advocating for workers, advocating for oppressed people, and standing with us, with the coalition, shoulder to shoulder from day one, fighting for all these things that we are fighting for, the stage and the sound and the longer route and all of it, and he is here to talk to you, byron cisco lopez. byron: thank you, hatem. my name is byron lopez, alderman of the 25th ward. i am here, standing as an elected official, but i'm also here standing as a father of a

chicagoan, as someone who cares deeply about our country. that is why i am here, through solidarity, understanding that liberation for working people will not be possible until palestine is free, and that is an unequivocal, unconditional demand. when we see many members of the democratic party coming and celebrating while chicago has filed for reproductive rights of immigrant rights, workers rights, and ultimately human rights conduct it is all the responsibility that the party that claims those victories, it is actually consistent with those values and principles, and they tell us they are going to act on them but we are going to see is the actions implemented into policy, and that is not happen. that is why we are here today, because chicago is the first city, the largest city devoted

democratically to pass a cease fire resolution. this is the same city that unanimously voted for all resolutions, demanding all of the federal government actions and not platitudes. it is quite embarrassing that our democratic party that claims to have such a big tent -- so we cannot capitulate to fascism. then policies will not reflect the majority of the party. we know over 70% of voters in the democratic party supports an immediate cease-fire and end of the genocide, a change in policy that will end the sales of the billions of guns that go to brutalize, already 40,000 victims of the genocide. we are not going to normalize the genocide. we are not going to capitulate to fascists that also have an agenda to dehumanize immigrants,

to close the border, and a really shameful policy that tries to close the border with our number one commercial party and partner, which is mexico. it is illogical, wrong, immoral, and that is why we got to mobilize. i asked and demand of the city of chicago, and conversations, to make sure that we have a safe passage, a safer route, that we have adequate space for our people's demonstration, that is indeed making sure we have a platform that speaks to working people. we also want to make sure the student movement here in chicago that comes to provoke, that has come to clear violence and then blame the student demonstrators for the violence they are demonstrating, promoting, and continue to perpetrate. today, we have an answer, and that is mobilizing. we demand vice president harris but in ink and paper the same in

words. we have to end the genocide, we've got a cease fire now, and we've got to end the criminal war and criminal budget, and that is here in chicago, a city we are proud to represent. [speaking spanish]

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[applause] hatem: thank you, byron. and thank you to all of our speakers. this is representative of this coalition, two hundred 70 organizations. we might hit 300 even by tomorrow morning. so i will open into questions now. >> -- real clearly a few days ago, protesters break the laws. do you have any reason to worry? will anybody block a road or something? or will they be lawful? hatem: listen, snelling, a few

weeks back, made threats to our coalition and threats to our community. he only walked a back because we challenged him on it, and we demanded he retract, and the coalition that was built around the federal consent decree also forced him to walk it back. so it is one thing to say that we have policies that say we respect the first amendment and we respect people's, protester'' rights. it is another thing to seek implementation by the chicago police, and we have seen what they have done to other communities here. faayani mentioned it, carlos mentioned it, we lived in 2020, the uprising, the george floyd protests, black and brown people

targeted at that time. they worry about violence is the worry about violence coming from chicago police and other law enforcement. they only have one responsibility here, only one. all of chicago police department, all of the other law enforcement agencies that are going to be here, they are only responsible for one thing -- to make sure that they do not infringe upon our first amendment right. that is it. we don't need them for safety. we don't need them for protection. we don't need them for security. we protect ourselves, we secure ourselves, we keep us safe. that is our slogan that comes from the black liberation movement as well. and we are prepared and primed with hundreds of marshals, security team, we work with the greatest legal organization in the history of this country, then national lawyers guild, to make sure they are monitoring the police and make sure they are representing our people as they get arrested. that is our position on chicago police and other law enforcement. over here.

>> can you talk about where -- i know we have one representative here from minnesota, but can you talk about where some of the other groups are coming from, and who is coordinating, you know, funding that, bringing those people here to chicago for the next several days? hatem: the fundraising is grassroots, you know, we put up a link, a fundraising link on the website a couple months back, and people from across the country, probably across the world, have been supporting all of us. we tried to subsidize some of the transportation. we've done some of that. but people on the grassroots level in those states raise the money themselves. people are putting $80, $140, so they can get on a bus, so they can come to chicago for this protest tomorrow. we got buses coming from minnesota, from new mexico, we got in from indiana, from michigan, from wisconsin, from ohio. wind is partnering with the march on the dnc come against

race and political oppression, on a lot about transportation i mentioned. car caravans and transom across the midwest, we know people are coming from california, and they are coming from new york, florida, and from texas and louisiana. i mean, we know, of all of those at least commander are probably a bunch of other states that i have not mentioned yet. so chartered buses and trains and caravans from all across the country, not just the midwest and not just chicago, this is a national mobilization. molly? molly: sorry i got here late. the route that you planned to come city has released. hatem: yeah. i will reiterate, the route we want is 2.4 miles long. we are going to continue to fight up until the step up from the park tomorrow to make sure that we get a longer route.

we have to consider that the people who are the powers that be are going to have to understand when they see the crowd, that, you know, that 1.1-mile route is not going to be sufficient. molly: if the city does not agree, you will follow the city route? hatem: if the city does not agree at step off, we will march the route, and, you know, listen, we have a philosophy in chicago that the numbers dictate what the route is. that's the way to answer that. >> where can you go right now? where does the route take you? hatem: washington boulevard to hermitage, north on hermitage to maple, west on maple to damon, north on damen -- this might all be great to the folks who are not from here. north on damon to lake street

and then back east, a few blocks, and then we come back south to parkside 78, where i announced earlier that we are going to have another program, and then we head back to union park. >> my other question, where do you want to go? hatem: what we want to do is continue down washington boulevard, past damon, meaning we want to go down the major thoroughfare, and that is another bone of contention, right? they are turning us on side streets, turning us on small side streets with thousands of people is going to cause logjams. logjams and bottlenecks might potentially cause protesters and say hey, listen, i don't want to stand here, been standing here watching great speeches, and the cops are making us turn. we are saying we don't want to turn. let us say on the thoroughfare.

the whitest street of dirigible -- the widest street imaginable, it is a simple, simple solution. oh, shit. carlos, do you have money for that? [laughter] sorry about that. hold on, molly, hold on. >> is at spite, not letting you do this? hatem: is it spite? listen, the negotiations with the law department commit seems to be antithetical to common sense, possibly, but the law department that we have been dealing with has not been negotiating in good faith with us. they have reneged on some promises, they have lied to us before. i believe there is a very conservative element within that law department that does not want a protest like this to happen. the reason why three days ago

they dropped that bombshell on a sense that you can come to the park, you can gather here with tens of thousands, and you can do your march, and you come back and send everybody home, but you cannot put up a stage, and you cannot have amplified sound. at that time, we made the argument that that is a content-based restriction. what is the content of the protest? free palestine, end u.s. aid to israel, stop the colonization, stop the occupation. yes, there are forces in this city and in this country come in the democratic party, kamala harris and joe biden and lincoln and jeffries and pelosi and schumer and durbin and all the talk democrats who don't want to hear that message, because they are the ones who are supporting israel unequivocally. that is why we say it is a content-based restriction, we fought so hard, and we won it

back in one day. yes, there is that element to it. it is political. it is not just based on security and safety come as they claimed. >> -- and help you get this number up? hatem: listen, the folks in the city, i believe the administration understands that this is the importance of people having the right to protest and the right to get their message heard. this administration has always been that way, has said clearly that as well, and i just got a message that i would like to quote here, that i think is very important, that i don't know anybody here has heard yet. "ahead of the dnc, where

pro-palestinian groups are expected to protest in the thousands, chicago mayor brandon johnson tells mother jones the war in gaza is a genocide. what is happening right now is not only agree just come it is genocide. johnson's position on the conflict also goes well beyond that of freshly minted democratic presidential nominee kamala harris, who has shown sympathy for palestinians suffering, but has also shown unwavering support to israel and insecurity. what is happening right now is not only agree just coming it, says johnson. we have to acknowledge and name it and have the moral exercise of our authority. he broke the tie in the city of chicago. byron was a leader on the floor of the city council, to get that cease fire pass.

brandon johnson is who he says he is. he is a person who come from no movement, he is an organizer by trade and by history, so he believes in the people's right to protest, and that is unimportant important thing in a city like chicago where we had mayors and leadership who maybe have not been that way over the years. yeah. i mean, i can't say that. >> how many people do you expect tomorrow? hatem: yeah. i don't have a precise number. we are going to have many, many thousands. is it going to hand tens of thousands? i believe throughout the course of the week, it's absolutely going to hit tens of thousands of people. >> you've been getting mixed messages from city officials and state officials. has that been part of the problem, as far as the groups? hatem: part of the problem is that, again, i think there is a

conservative element within the law department, that has been there for many, many decades. they have been there when they were working under conservative mayors, like rahm emanuel, and they are still there. and they made things very, very difficult for us, absolutely. there is a contradiction there, and it is clear. everybody in the city knows it. we saw it with kim fox. can fox came in as a reformer, a prosecutor, she won elections, she came in as a reformer, but she had to deal with a bunch of robots in her own office, because she had all of these conservative prosecutors that did not want to see a black prosecutor who came in and said, we are not going to charge people for petty offenses, we are not going to put everybody in jail because they are smoking a joint, and people do not like that. and so, yeah. we have that element here. we've got a new city.

i've always said from day one, i really wish this would have happened in the rahm emanuel mayoral era, because i would have had a hell of a time, i would have had the funnest time in my organizing career, going after the zionist mayor. we are in chicago, and we struggle is really in a city like this. this is a better city for us under immanuel than it was under daily. a better city for black people come into grants, for arabs -- immigrants, arabs, if they it is supposed to be a better city for everyone, and i believe it is. jb pritzker? we got nothing from jb pritzker. jb pritzker publicly criticize mayor johnson after the vote. jb pritzker is a zionist, jb pritzker supports israel unequivocally.

i believe he's done good work in general, but he's one of those folks we call progress and except on palestine, and that is not acceptable anymore. that is why the national alliance that others have been protesting congresspeople and disrupting ad escalating our protest against congresspeople, especially those who call themselves progressive, like jan schakowsky, like jb pritzker, like durbin. there's a reason for that. you cannot call yourself progressive, you cannot -- we care about as welcome and we acknowledge it. pritzker is great on immigration rights, women's rights, but when it comes to palestine, it is not -- they are not great, and we are not going to give them a pass. >> the mayor is not coming to the protest, but the aldermans who are coming. hatem: i cannot speak to the alderman or any alderpeople,

city council members who are coming. listen, if a member of congress comes to us, depending on the they are, to our stage and says, i want to stand with you, then they can stand with us in absolutely. do i have an expectation? i cannot say that i do, but they would be welcome to march with us, tens of thousands of people. that is not made it will get on the stage from a necessarily, but if they want to be with us, they could with us. >> the united arena has safety zones. hatem: yeah. listen, i cannot tell you if there are any plans to do anything inside. that is not the purview of our coalition. we are working on monday and thursday protests and supporting the wednesday protests. there might be disruptions inside, there might be some kind of protest inside. i don't know that. we do know that, you know, the uncommitted movement has 30 or so delegates that are going to be there.

we will see if the democrats will let them speak, right? if you asked me write out what my production would be come up i would say -- right now what my prediction would be, i would say they are not going to let them speak. >> -- what is going on inside there? the impact what is going on inside their, will they listen to the protests? hatem: yeah. i think we will have some impact , because people in power are afraid. they are afraid of this protest movement, absolutely. congresswoman kelly from the south side came to one of our events where we did a disruption, ad, you know, abla and others have talked about. this escalation in the movement. we have to stop the genocide. this is the vietnam war of our generation. there is a war going on. 40,000 people dead, maybe 20,000 people under the rubble, 100,000 injured, 2 million displaced, a

famine situation at a hunger situation we have never, ever seen in the history of the palestinian people. somebody has to stop this! if kamala harris is not going to do it and joe biden is not going to do it indefinitely blinken is not going to do it, then the people have to do it. that is why we are doing it. congresswoman kelly came out to one of the events, she got on the mic and said, my colleagues don't do events anymore. because the go to every single one of them and we challenge them. you're a democrat and you are a liberal and some of you claim to be progressive, and you continue to vote for more arms shipments to israel. how does that make any sense? go tell me you are a progressive income if you want israel to continue to kill our babies! don't tell me you are a progressive! you don't have that right, whether you are a powerful governor of the state or a congresswoman like jan schakowsky or a powerful

senator, the second highest ranking democrat in the senate is dick durbin, representing palestinians in his state for decades, don't tell me you are a progressive, don't tell me you care about my community come if you are going to continue voting for those weapons to go there to kill my babies! [applause] any other questions? for any of the other speakers as well? alright, we are going to stick around a little bit. carlos and faayani and byron and abla, fee

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